Event

The Academic Support/Disabilities Liaison Unit invites you to a public lecture in commemoration of the United Nations International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2013. This lecture takes place on Thursday November 28, 2013, from 5pm-6.30pm, at the Noor Hassanali Auditorium, Faculty of Law.

Feature speaker is Senator Ms. Kerry Ann Ifill.  

All are invited!  

More about the United Nations International Day of Persons with Disabilities 

The annual observance of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities was proclaimed in 1992, by the United Nations General Assembly resolution 47/3. The observance of the Day, held December 3^rd each year, aims to promote an understanding of disability issues and mobilize support for the dignity, rights and well-being of persons with disabilities. It also seeks to increase awareness of gains to be derived from the integration of persons with disabilities in every aspect of political, social, economic and cultural life.The commemoration of this year’s International Day of Persons with Disabilities provides an opportunity to further raise awareness of disability and accessibility as a cross cutting development issue and further the global efforts to promote accessibility, remove all types of barriers, and to realize the full and equal participation of persons with disabilities in society and shape the future of development for all!

Theme: “Break barriers, open doors: for an inclusive society for all” 

More about Senator Kerry Ann Ifill 

Senator Kerry Ann Ifill is a Barbadian politician. Senator Ifill currently holds the post of President of the Senate in Barbados and she is the first woman, the first person with a disability as well as the youngest ever to hold this position.Despite losing her sight at the age of four due to cataracts, Ms. Ifill was the first blind person to graduate from the University of the West Indies with a degree in Sociology and Psychology from the Cave Hill Campus. She further went on to obtain an MBA at Durham Business School in England.

In 2008 she was appointed to the post of Deputy President of the Senate  by Barbadian Prime Minister David Thompson. In 2012 MS. Ifill was appointed to her current position as President of the Senate by Prime Minister Freundel Stuart.